Nicholas Charles Goepper (Nick Goepper) Quotes

I try to keep a pretty one-tracked mind.

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• The biggest thing is education for young chefs and how they should focus on one cuisine rather than trying to imitate too many. It's like art - you can see the cycles from many past artists and new artists being inspired by past artists.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Trying
  • Art
  • Past

• The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Trying
  • American
  • Happiness

• One of the biggest mistakes people make when they cook for other people is to think that it has to be fancy and elaborate. This results in enormous expense and nine days of labor, plus you end up trying to assemble a croquembouche in front of your guests and everyone's experiencing flop sweat.

  

  Ted Allen
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• Right now I am trying to be in a place of calm, a place where I can chill out and then handle the chaos of life better. You don't just get it overnight; you have to work at it. It's a daily struggle.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Life
  • Work
  • Trying

• It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Mind
  • Vice
  • Vulgar

• In my mind, I always think of myself as an underdog type.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Mind
  • Myself
  • Underdog

• I'm restless. I'm all the time here and there and trying to get myself busy and creative. It's something that's part of my personality since I was a kid.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Myself

• The spot paintings and spin paintings were trying to find mechanical ways to make paintings.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Trying
  • Find
  • Mechanical

• Every time I step onto the field, whether people like it or not, I'm not trying to play dirty - I'm just playing tough.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• What I'm trying to do is put back into rap music what's missing - which is the good part, the fun part, that party part.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Good
  • Music
  • Trying

• That's a part that's always a challenge for athletes: trying to keep the passion alive while knowing it's still your job. There's no question that at some point, probably sooner rather than later, I'll be pretty burned out. And when that time comes, then I'll take a step back and take a look at it and see if I want to keep going.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Job

• But I do believe there are certain principles that are universal. I think that all people want basic dignity and want basic freedom, and want to be able to worship as they please without being discriminated against, or they should be able to speak their mind about an important issue pertaining to their community without being arrested.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Believe
  • Important

• I don't mind if someone thinks I'm a sell out. I go to bed happy knowing I do what I do and I'm not doing anything for reasons of money, and if I were trying to pick up chicks, I'm doing a horrible job. And if I wanted to drive awesome cars, I'm doing a really bad job there too.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Trying

• It is not until science has become a discipline to which the research ability of any mind from any class in society can be attracted that it can become rigorously scientific.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • Mind
  • Society
  • Science

• If you're filming a scene on horseback, if you're trying to control an animal that's much larger than you and trying to get it to do the exact same thing so you can match things up, that can get tricky, especially if the horse gets tired or angry or something.

  

  Daniel Portman
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Control

• 'Troublemaker' is not an adaptation of 'Metro Girl' or 'Motor Mouth.' It is an original story. The hardest part was probably trying to keep the sound true to the novels. I always write in first person, and it was important to us that the readers of 'Metro' and 'Motor' be comfortable with the change over to a graphic novel.

  

  Janet Evanovich
  • Important
  • Trying
  • True

• Tell your daughters and their daughters that if they want to be a firewoman, they can be a firewoman. If they want to be an astronaut, they can be an astronaut. If they want to run their own business or run for president, they can do whatever they put their mind to.

  

  Kay Cannon
  • Mind
  • Business

• People in the U.K. cannot understand whether Blair has lost his mind or whether his ambition to be the second-most-powerful man in the world made him lose his mind.

  

  Bianca Jagger
  • People
  • World
  • Mind

• It is not possible to completely eliminate mediation between you as an observer and the history you are trying to understand.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Trying
  • History

• As we know, all sports evolve tremendously, and our sport is no different. It's really not the same thing at all as it was in 1972. It's a different type of horse we're using. The style of riding is quite evolved, the way the courses are built, the materials used... it's virtually unrecognizable.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Different
  • Style
  • Sports

• And in the meantime, Michelle has had a chance to greet the incoming First Lady. And we had an excellent conversation with her as well. And we want to make sure that they feel welcome as they prepare to make this transition.

  

  Barack Obama
  • First Lady
  • Greet
  • Michelle

• The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life. Nevertheless, like the greater part of our misfortunes, even so serious a contingency brings its remedy and consolation with it, if the sufferer will but make the best, rather than the worst, of the accident which has befallen him.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Life
  • Serious

• A bird makes the same use of wings and tail in the air as a swimmer does of his arms and legs in the water.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Water
  • Air
  • Bird

• I try to keep a pretty one-tracked mind.

  

  Nicholas Charles Goepper
  • Mind
  • Trying